I'm Amelia Waters, Managing Partner of EDSO Edge, former BCG consultant, and recovering COO.
I've spent two decades in the operator seat. Restructuring a unicorn startup's burn rate. Scaling multi-state healthcare operations. Running post-merger integrations that were already behind schedule before the ink dried. Building the operational infrastructure that PE boards want to see, and that management teams actually have to live in.
What I've learned is that most companies don't have a strategy problem. They have a gap between strategy and execution. That gap is where EBITDA goes to die.
This newsletter is where I write about that gap.
The topics follow the work: complexity reduction, revenue leakage, integration failures, operational decisions that move EBITDA, and the ones that quietly drain it. The frameworks here aren't borrowed from someone else's case study. They come from engagements with real companies, real constraints, real numbers.
The audience is CEOs, COOs, and CFOs running $100M–$500M+ businesses who want operational thinking that's actually useful. If that's you, you're in the right place.
Published monthly. If something here changes how you see a problem, forward it to someone who needs it.
Learn more at edso-edge.com.